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Thursday, February 6, 2014

SRU's Dean, Papley Earn Spots in All Star Game

SRU's Dean, Papley earn spots in USA Football Bowl all-star
game

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Former Slippery Rock
University football standouts Quindell Dean and Tony Papley were included on a
list of players recently announced by Dennis Wilson, president of the USA
Football Network and the Metropolitan New York Football Writers Association, as
participants in Monday’s USA Football Bowl all-star game.

The game will be played Monday at Metropolitan
Stadium in Hoover, Ala.

The all-star game invitations were the latest
additions to a treasure chest of honors received by Dean and Papley.

A 6-foot-1, 235-pound strongside linebacker from
Uniontown, Dean was the No. 2 tackler on last fall’s Rock squad with 76
total takedowns (43 solo, 33 assisted). Dean ranked ninth in the PSAC in
tackles for loss with a team-high 14.5 for -47 yards.

Dean also intercepted two passes, one of which
he returned for a touchdown in the NCAA Division II first-round national
playoff game at Winston-Salem State, batted down six passes and recorded two
quarterback hurries.

Dean ended the regular season ranked 24th on
SRU's career tackles list with 239, 18th in career solo tackles with 125 and
14th in career tackles for loss with 32 for -155 yards.

A fourth-year member of The Rock program after
being redshirted as a true freshman at Division I Toledo, Dean recorded nine
career quarterback sacks, one shy of being included in the school's top 25 in
that category.

Papley also intercepted one pass, broke up two
others, recorded three quarterback hurries and recovered a fumble in his final
collegiate campaign.

Dean and Papley were key components of a Rock
defense that finished the 2013 season ranked fourth nationally in pass defense
efficiency, fifth in third-down conversion and 25th in rushing defense.

The all-star game participants were part of an
18-man senior class that led The Rock to a 9-3 final record, the PSAC West
championship, a conference runner-up finish and SRU’s first NCAA Division II
national playoff berth since 1999.

As sophomores in 2011, Dean and Papley helped
The Rock record an 8-3 record, win the PSAC West title for the first time since
2000 and claim conference runner-up honors. The duo was part of a defensive
unit that ranked third nationally in rushing defense, fourth in total defense,
ninth in pass defense efficiency, 10th in interceptions and 11th in third-down
conversion.

The USA Football Bowl started in 1995 as the
Division III Senior All-Star Classic and later became known as the Aztec Bowl
for 10 years and was played in Mexico, Wilson said. In 2010, the event absorbed
the Division II Cactus Bowl. NAIA, NCCAA and USCAA senior All-Americans were
awarded to the game’s talent pool in 2011, followed in 2012 by the addition of
FCS seniors. FBS seniors joined the talent pool for the first time in 2014.

With the announcements in November 2013 of the
demise of the Texas vs. The Nation, Casino del Sol and Raycomm Bowl all-star
games, the USA Football Bowl, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, is one
of four remaining post-season senior all-star games recognized by the national
broadcast and print media, football writers' associations and professional
football franchises, according to Wilson.

The other universally recognized senior all-star
games are the East-West Shrine Game in St. Petersburg, Fla., which will be held
for the 89th time; the third annual NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Carson, Calif. and
the 46th Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala.

The USA Football Bowl will draw top players from
all four levels of NCAA competition (Football Bowl Subdivision, Football
Championship Subdivision, Division II and Division III), as well as players
from NAIA, National Christian College Athletic Association and United States
Collegiate Athletic Association programs, according to Wilson.

The game will be included in five days of
activities that will also feature an awards banquet Sunday and a USA
Professional Football Leagues Testing Combine that will be conducted Tuesday by
NFL, CFL and AFL coaches and scouts, Wilson said.

The USA Football Bowl will have a live online
radio broadcast on the National Gridiron Network and a tape-delayed national
television broadcast, Wilson said. Typically, the game is aired two days later
on ESPNU and/or the NFL Channel, according to Wilson.

Each of the teams in this year’s USA Football
Bowl game will have 66 players, according to Wilson.

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Dreamweaver Marketing Associates.Joyce
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